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Canadian Forestry Journal, December, 1918 



contain wood which can be used 

 locally, but the forest areas there are 

 regarded as having no commerical 

 value.- Enormous tracts have been 



burnt repeatedly by forest fires, and 

 a considerable pro])ortion of the 

 most northerly part of the country 

 consists of tundra. 



France's Profit from Forestry 



In France, in the last 60 years, 

 2,300,000 acres of absolute waste land 

 of various descriptions were re- 

 claimed by forest planting at a total 

 cost of $15,000,000, These areas 

 are now estimated to be worth 

 $135,000,000 and furnish annual 

 crops valued at $10,000,000. or in 

 other words, yield 67% on the 

 initial outlay. These examples of 

 the profitableness of practical or, 

 if you will, scientific forestry can be 

 multiplied indefinitely wherever it 

 has been carried on long enough. 



What does this scientific treatment 

 that leads to such results consist in? 

 First of all, in a difference of attitude, 

 namely, in considering timber as a 

 crop capable of reproduction, and 

 not looking on the forest as a mine 

 which is bound to be exhausted. 

 Instead of allowing a lumberman 

 to cut down and carry off all that is 

 good and marketable, and leave the 

 poorer materials and the slash to 



burn, or permitting a reproduction of 

 the good, bad and indifferent species 

 which nature unaided might chance 

 to establish, the forester first of all 

 ascertains in detail the character and 

 composition of the forest property. 

 He then makes a plan — -a working 

 plan — in which it is determined how 

 much of a felling budget may be 

 taken properly and yet assure con- 

 tinuous crops. He then proceeds 

 to cut with a view to securing the 

 new crop, first improving the com- 

 position by removing or killing the 

 weed trees to give better chance for 

 the valuable species, and then cut- 

 ting the old crop gradually, as the 

 young crop needs more light. Or 

 else, he may clear the entire stand 

 and replant the area, a method under 

 which 65% of the Prussian forests 

 is managed. There are a number of 

 other methods, each adapted to given 

 conditions. 



B. E. F. 



Spinning Out the Tree Supply 



R. 0. Sweezey in "Financial Times." 



The Province of Quebec possesses 

 three hundred million cords of s;.r- ce 

 and balsam pulpwood in her standing 

 forests, Ontario's forests are roughly 

 estimated to contain two hundred 

 million cords — facts that should 

 impress the economist and to many 

 no doubt it suggests the idea that our 

 forests are inexhaustible. 



That the larger province of On- 

 tario should possess so mich less than 

 Quebec, naturally prompts enquiry 

 and the reason is found to be FIRE, 

 FAULTY LUMBERING AIETH- 

 ODS and WANTON DESTRUC- 

 TION of the forest at a tim.e when it 

 had no particular value; Quebec 

 suffering less because railroads did not 



reach into her hinterland to the 

 same extent as in Ontario. But 

 since spruce, about 25 years ago, 

 became the all-important wood in the 

 production of fibre for the manufac- 

 turers of newsprint paper, the forests 

 of Quebec and Ontario have acquired 

 a monetar>^ value that is simj ly 

 incalculable, especially considering 

 the wonderful distribution of \\ater 

 powers around which the gro\\ingl 

 pulp and paper industry leads all 

 others in creating and developing 

 new urban communities. 



Viewing the rapidity with which 

 this industry has grown in Quebec and 

 Ontario and considering the vastness 

 of the forests, still virgin and into 



